Delivery of free eye care to the elderly in Portland and St. Thomas will be significantly enhanced, through eye screening clinics to be carried out by the Voluntary Optometric Services...

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday February 1, passed the Health and Allied Professions and Services Miscellaneous Penalty Provisions Bill (2010), which, among other things, provides for an increase in...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)-supported 'Bashy Bus' HIV prevention project has been extended to  St. Ann, with the handing over of a mobile unit to the St. Ann Health...

As the Government expands facilities for renal dialysis, to make the service more accessible, focus is being placed on training in nephrology, with 13 nurses and three tutors already in...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer has said that Government’s no user fee policy was a step in the right direction, as this was directly responsible for the increased access...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has commenced work on a protective wall in the vicinity of the Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth. The wall which is being built on...

Cabinet has approved two contracts valued at $222,653, 782.27 for the procurement of antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV. One contract in the sum of $174, 488,848 has been...

Residents of Central Jamaica, who are in need of renal treatment, will no longer have to travel long distances to access the service. This, as the Government has opened a...

Recalling his two episodes as a patient of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that there was nothing as important to a hospital as the people...

Several new measures are to be implemented at the Bellevue Hospital to ensure that the facility provides the most effective service and care to its patients. Chairman of the South...

The Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Programme will be conducting screening sessions in the parishes of St. Catherine, Clarendon and Portland. Screening will take place from January 24 – 28, 2011.  The...